It illustrates the flaw with “better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
Spoiler tag for hard truths you’re probably better not knowing:
spoiler
Here’s how things will work for a trans woman who exercises armed self-defense in a state like Wyoming:
Regardless of the circumstances of the case, she will be arrested and charged with assault or murder.
When arrested, she will be taken to a male prison, regardless of whether she has male or female anatomy.
At her trial, half the jurors will want to convict her simply for being trans. Her claim to self-defense will fail, and she will be convicted.
While in prison, the guards will literally use her as a reward for male inmates. She will be moved around from cell to cell, used as a tool of positive discipline to keep the male inmates in line. A male prisoner agrees to serve as an informant? Let him have the trans woman for a few nights as a reward. A male prisoner normally acts out, but has been on good behavior? Lock her up with him and let him rape her for a few days as a reward. The guards literally use trans women as a currency to reward male prisoners. This is not an uncommon practice.
When a trans woman is sentenced to prison, she is being sentenced to daily rape and sexual assault.
You sure it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six?
Apologies. I just consider it polite to search first for a definition before asking other people to explain it. This isn’t an obscure bit of terminology. That wikipedia article would have popped right at the top of search results if you had tried searching.
As another trans woman, it’s commonly known among us, but even then not as commonly known as you’d think. I never expect cis people to know the term or be aware of the concept (though I’ve been trying to be more vocal about it myself because I think it’s important that they do know)
And personally I think it’s actually more polite to ask for clarification in a thread. If you don’t know a word or idea others may not either and it allows the one who brought it up to be the voice on it
Dude . NGL i was actually annoyed that you wrote a whole ass dissertation in reply and still didn’t just write a one sentence definition. Everyone doesn’t want to have to open a whole other page just to understand WTF you’re talking about. Granted, given the harrowing nature of the subject matter (now that I actually know WTF you’re talking about) this is a minor annoyance. But I’d bet fewer than 10% of the people who read your response bothered to click on the link and I would argue that it would be better for society if more people were educated about the absolute horrors of the (US, others?) penal system.
And just to close the loop for other lazy folk like myself: V-coding has to do with deliberately housing trans women inmates with sexually violent male inmates.
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
Tell that to the trans woman being v-coded.
There are some fates in this world worse than death.
I have no idea what “v-coded” means.
You could try searching. But I’ll hold your hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding
It illustrates the flaw with “better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
Spoiler tag for hard truths you’re probably better not knowing:
spoiler
Here’s how things will work for a trans woman who exercises armed self-defense in a state like Wyoming:
Regardless of the circumstances of the case, she will be arrested and charged with assault or murder.
When arrested, she will be taken to a male prison, regardless of whether she has male or female anatomy.
At her trial, half the jurors will want to convict her simply for being trans. Her claim to self-defense will fail, and she will be convicted.
While in prison, the guards will literally use her as a reward for male inmates. She will be moved around from cell to cell, used as a tool of positive discipline to keep the male inmates in line. A male prisoner agrees to serve as an informant? Let him have the trans woman for a few nights as a reward. A male prisoner normally acts out, but has been on good behavior? Lock her up with him and let him rape her for a few days as a reward. The guards literally use trans women as a currency to reward male prisoners. This is not an uncommon practice.
When a trans woman is sentenced to prison, she is being sentenced to daily rape and sexual assault.
You sure it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six?
You could try realizing that your jargon is not universal (even in your own country!) and not be a vicious twit.
But that isn’t likely at all, so I’ll just cut this off at the knees right here.
Apologies. I just consider it polite to search first for a definition before asking other people to explain it. This isn’t an obscure bit of terminology. That wikipedia article would have popped right at the top of search results if you had tried searching.
As another trans woman, it’s commonly known among us, but even then not as commonly known as you’d think. I never expect cis people to know the term or be aware of the concept (though I’ve been trying to be more vocal about it myself because I think it’s important that they do know)
And personally I think it’s actually more polite to ask for clarification in a thread. If you don’t know a word or idea others may not either and it allows the one who brought it up to be the voice on it
Dude . NGL i was actually annoyed that you wrote a whole ass dissertation in reply and still didn’t just write a one sentence definition. Everyone doesn’t want to have to open a whole other page just to understand WTF you’re talking about. Granted, given the harrowing nature of the subject matter (now that I actually know WTF you’re talking about) this is a minor annoyance. But I’d bet fewer than 10% of the people who read your response bothered to click on the link and I would argue that it would be better for society if more people were educated about the absolute horrors of the (US, others?) penal system.
And just to close the loop for other lazy folk like myself: V-coding has to do with deliberately housing trans women inmates with sexually violent male inmates.